Cuesta arriba

Henri Pirenne redactó este material en una prisión alemana durante la primera Guerra Mundial. Sin bibliotecas, privado de sus libros y notas, carente de elementos que le despejaran el camino, realizó un brillante esfuerzo de memoria y de concentración de pensamiento para reflexionar sobre sus conocimientos, sistematizarlos y recoger a grandes rasgos el proceso evolutivo de todo un periodo histórico de la vida humana.

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El racismo es una creación de la cultura y del pensamiento humanos, una forma de conducta y por ello un fenómeno totalmente histórico, susceptible de cambiar y de adaptarse a situaciones concretas. Con independencia de las bases científicas a las que apela –muchas veces inventadas ad hoc–, CHRISTIAN GEULEN nos muestra que su tema fundamental es la lucha por la afirmación, valoración, pervivencia y supremacía de comunidades percibidas como «razas» que necesariamente se ven enfrentadas entre sí. Aunque ya en la Antigüedad y en época medieval hubo grupos excluidos de la sociedad, ...

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